Tag: bhakti
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Who Was Sant Kabir? The Weaver-Poet Who Refused Both Temple and Mosque
Who was Sant Kabir? The life, poetry and teachings of the fifteenth-century weaver-mystic of Varanasi who rejected caste, ritual and religious labels alike – and what historians can and cannot actually verify about him.
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Who Is Lord Vishnu? The Story, Symbolism and Worship of the Preserver
Who is Lord Vishnu? A complete guide to the preserver of the cosmos: his origins in the Vedas, the meaning of his conch, discus, mace and lotus, the ten avatars, his great temples, festivals and mantras.
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Goswami Tulsidas: The Poet Who Gave North India Its Ramayana
Goswami Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana in the language people actually spoke. The life, the works, the disputed dates and the enduring reach of the saint-poet of Awadhi.
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Who Is Lord Rama? The Story, Symbolism and Worship of Maryada Purushottama
Rama is the seventh avatar of Vishnu and the one Hindus call Maryada Purushottama, the perfect man. A full guide to his story, his textual sources, his symbolism, his temples and festivals, and the hard questions his life raises.
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Who Is Goddess Lakshmi? The Story, Symbolism and Worship of Shri
Who is Goddess Lakshmi? Her origin in the churning of the ocean, the meaning of the lotus, coins and elephants, the eight Ashta Lakshmi forms, her great temples, festivals and mantras — explained with their textual sources.
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Who Is Lord Krishna? The Story, Symbolism and Worship of the Dark-Hued Lord
Krishna was born in a prison cell and died under a tree, mistaken for a deer. Between those two moments sits the most beloved and most argued-over figure in Hindu devotion. A full guide to his story, symbolism, temples, festivals and mantras.
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Female Saints of India: Seven Women Who Changed Indian Devotion
From Karaikkal Ammaiyar in the Tamil country to Bahinabai in Maharashtra, India produced women mystics who wrote in their own languages, refused the lives arranged for them, and were accepted as teachers by men. Their stories, their verses and what we actually know about them.
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Who Is Lord Ganesha? The Story, Symbolism and Worship of Ganapati
A complete guide to Lord Ganesha: the origin stories across the Puranas, what every part of his form means, the mouse, the broken tusk, his family and consorts, the Ashtavinayaka temples, Ganesh Chaturthi, his mantras, and why he is worshipped first.
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The Three Paths to Liberation in the Bhagavad Gita
The Gita’s three paths of liberation are Karma Yoga (selfless action), Jnana Yoga (knowledge and discernment), and Bhakti Yoga (devotion)
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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12: The Path of Devotion
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 offers something quietly perfect in response: a reminder that the deepest spiritual life is ultimately expressed not through overwhelming revelation, but through an ordinary, sustained practice of compassion, equanimity, and sincere devotion — qualities available to any person, in any circumstance, starting exactly where they are.
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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 marks a quiet but decisive shift in the Bhagavad Gita — from a teaching primarily concerned with right action and inner discipline, to one that begins revealing the vast, intimate presence underlying all of existence. Krishna’s promise of complete knowledge at this chapter’s opening is not fulfilled all at once; it…
